LOVE mulberries! Growing up here in Jersey, our neighbor had a huge mulberry tree and my sister and i would go over and pick them for hours and come home with purple hands, mouths and feet. Best memories, and they are SO GOOD!
As a young boy my husband planted a mulberry tree in a narrow strip of dirt between the neighbor and his driveway. Needless to say , they had to cut it down after a few years because it stained the driveways so bad and was close enough to stain the neighbors clothes when they were drying on the line. Ooops.
When my granddaughter was about 5 She would go blueberry picking with me. She loved blueberries and we have 4 bushes that are very prolific. At the end of the picking, she said sorry Gramm, I ate all mine "I just couldn't help myself ".
I would buy some dormant cuttings or a rooted tree from you. Mulberries are easy to propagate from cuttings. I’ve grown several from my Pakistan Mulberry to give away.
Can remember when I was a child me and my brother use to sit in the tree and eat our bellies full. Our tree was just outdide our kitchen door. Must be almost 60y ago😂❤
We had a Mulberry tree like that at my parents growing up. Way better that blackberries. Tries to get a piece started at my house but it did not take. I used to pull down the limb and my poodle would jump up and grab the ripe berries. He knew only to pick the ripe ones, we ate a lot back then. The leave on theirs seemed a tad bigger than yours but it was in some shade.
My mulberries are cranking out and I just had some mulberry cobbler I made and topped with homemade vanilla ice cream. It was definitely the best cobbler I have ever had. They are my favorite berry. One tree has thousands every other day I pick at least a gallon and new berries keep forming. I rinse them in vinegar water , then fresh water then let dry and then freeze them .
We had cobbler and ice cream last night with some friends. It was amazing! No one there (besides us) had ever had mulberries. They all though they were eating blackberry cobbler until we told them.
@@LazyDogFarm I am not a fan of blackberries or blueberries- just not much flavor. UF has a new blueberry that is supposed to be very flavorful but I have not been able to find any. I hope some of the u pick fields will also have them for sale. If you hear after any place that has them and will ship please post. I can drive to North Tampa area to pick up otherwise I would rather pay shipping.
As a kid, some 50+ years ago, we had a Mulberry on the family farm (Australia). As kids, we used to climb that tree and eat as many as we could. The first mulberry, was incredibly sour, but subsequent mulberries wonderful. Silk caterpillars love their leaves.
I planted 4 dwarf everbearing mulberry twigs this year. They`re already about 10 feet tall in Louisiana but no fruit yet. One was a pencil sized rooted cutting with bark & 3 were slender green rooted tips of branches. I`m gonna have to do major pruning soon.
Those two remind me of me and my older brother. 😂 we did something similar with a chore sheet. Apparently you can’t do the same chore multiple time a day cause it pays more than others. Dad wasn’t a sucker. 😂
We planted 2 different varieties of mulberry trees last year and they are just flowering right now. I'm in a cooler climate than you though. I don't expect very many this first year but the trees have doubled in size. They grow much faster than other fruit trees I have with very little effort. I've read that some people plant mulberries to keep birds away from their other fruit trees. I'm hoping the birds like them better than my cherries and blueberries.
I had an Illinois Everbearing mulberry that produced fruit longer than most varieties. I cut it down after the fruit began developing popcorn disease every year. That mulberry tree produced every year. I suppose the disease built up over time, unlike the trees that bear inconsistently. Birds love them.
I don't know what kind of Mulberry tree that is but it looks exactly like the kind we had behind our barn when I was a kid. It was there when my mom and dad bought the farm years ago. They never knew but it sure was good. Hey, I love the industrious kid that got all the bowls to make money. He is going to be a shrew business man one day. No grass growing under that kids feet. 😂😂😂
Good evening, Travis We would be interested in several cuttings also , for here in Montgomery County, Texas We had many in Alabama when I was growing up . God bless you and Brooklyn and the boys . Mrs j Montgomery County, Texas 🙏
Took me many years to learn they were edible. Wish somebody had told me when I bought the house. Quite a treat, my tree almost the same size and also sitting on a property line here in VA. Thanks.
Hey Lazy Dog! there`s a guy down here in Florida his name is Pete Kanaris at Green Dream TV a fellow youtuber, he`s big in to growing food forest yards and on one of his shows he showcase a mulberry that looked very much like the one you have and he called it a Everberry Mulberry. A friend of mine has a tree the size of the one you have and his also skips a fruit set from time to time and now that i think about it, it generally happens when we have late frost/freeze here in central Florida. Look up Pete, maybe he could give you more insight on your mulberry. By the way great show.
Try contacting Jan Doolin, she has a CZcams channel all about Mulberries. I’m sure she can help you get a bit closer on the variety. Either way though, I too would gladly pay for cuttings in the fall.
Here in northern Missouri on the farm, we’ve had mulberry trees my entire life… ours are just like yours, only produces in early spring each year…. They look just like what you showed only ours is not that big. In fact only about half that size. We’ve never had a problem with frost, they produce later than the last frost/freeze here. Wished I could tell you the name, but I’ve never heard of anything but “it’s a mulberry” 😊
My father waged war against a mulberry tree for decades. It drove him absolutely crazy that a) he couldn't kill that tree and b) I willingly snacked on it from the day I could reach the fruits. (Also, the leaves are edible.)
Have you ever tried to propagate the mulberry tree? I'm sure a small tree would sale. I would be interested in at least two. I was successful in propagate my neighbors mulberry tree. He said that it was the "native" for florida. It bloomed this year, but they all feel off, it is only about 4 feet tall.
I've got a 2yr old Pakistani Mulberry that propagated itself into a cut-in-half wine barrel that is next to it. I didn't do a thing to it. Lol!! I'm going to re-pot it, & give it away
It looks like the variety called World's Best developed by Univ. Of FL, which supports its susceptibility to frost. Or it could be whatever variety they used to breed the World's Best.
Funny that... A friend was clearing out his yard and I got some cuttings that I am propagating to grow mulberries (black). I have already been warned from my friend's situation that they are fast growing so I'm starting mine in a container but I wanted to add one to my ever growing garden. The berries were really delicious!!
I’m happy to see you have those. I saw one lady just grind them up and just use the juice. The white ones are shiny leaves, not shiny leaves? Those have a lot of protein and people dry them. I’m going to try to hit them harder this year. It’s just such a free, reliable, yearly resource that I allow it to go to waste. HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT MUCH ON FLAVOR. Everything else they are good on.
I was at a campground in Lancaster Pa. about 30+ years ago and we had a huge mulberry tree on our campsite. They were so delicious. I never realized they were this far north. 😊
Native Red Mulberry tree. I have several of them planted that I rooted (cloned) from a highly productive tree that produces good size fruit and is about 40yrs old and growing on family land.
@@miltkarr5109 yep, I bite off the stem and just chew up the internal part. It could be a hybrid. Native Red Mulberry’s will cross with others. Not many native mulberries around anymore. White mulberry’s are usually bushy and not big trees. Mulberry also makes good meat smoking wood, similar to apple wood.
This could be a (Morus nigra) Black mulberry. Someone would need to look at the leaves, bark, fruit size, etc. I do have Red Mulberries that produce large fruit but the more I think about it I’m thinking Travis’s tree is a Persian Black Mulberry, ( Morus Nigra)
Check out the variety that is indegenous to Texas. Those are big like your tree and they also start out red and turn black. There is also a hybrid that is invasive. Its a cross between the Texas variety and an asian variety but the berries start out light green instead of red.
One of the properties my father leased did in fact have a mulberry tree in our back yard. Didn’t know it till it started producing fruit. It might have fruited a couple of times but not enough for anything but eating what you find. Sadly, that farm no longer exists and everything was razed to the ground.😮
I think that is either a white or native red Mulberry........ Description White mulberry is a medium-sized tree with a short trunk, broad, round crown, and many fine twigs. Leaves are alternate, simple, 2-6 inches long, with 0-5 lobes, coarse teeth, pointed tip. Three main veins arise from the base. Undersurface smooth, paler than above. Bleeds milky sap. Leaf stalk smooth. Bark is thin, brown, sometimes tinged with red or yellow, with shallow grooves and long, narrow ridges; it ages to resemble elm bark. Twigs are reddish-brown, smooth to slightly hairy, turning gray and smooth with age. Bleed milky sap. Flowers April-May, with male and female flowers on the same tree or on different trees. Male catkins ½-1½ inches long; female catkins ½-¾ inch long. Fruits June-August, blackberry-like; white to pink to purple; globe-shaped to oval; ½-¾ inch long. Similar species: Our native red mulberry (M. rubra) has leaves hairy underneath, more often lobeless, with hairy leaf stalk; its fruits are cylindrical and start out red (not white or pink); its catkins and leaves are larger. Another species, the black mulberry (M. nigra) grows in the Old World; most people think it has the best-tasting berries, which you might find in preserves or dried at international groceries.
There was a similar large mulberry tree in thibodaux, la half mile from Nicholls State next to the 7-11 now Shop Rite. Large sweet fruit but not the Pakistan variety. Haven't seen any like it since
looks like a World's Best to me. It wakes up too early to be a Morus nigra like Black Beauty, noir De spain or Black Persian. Morus Nigra has pretty tick leaves like a fig. You need to get some sealer on that grout.
I wonder if you irrigated the tree if it would keep producing, sounds like your sandy soils with hot summers are pretty harsh for a berry producing tree to get the water it would need to do such a thing. Are the chickens going to get a taste ? lol
Would you be open to selling cuttings? These plants root and can be grafted on easily. If that tree is unique might be good to sell and guarantee it's preservation. Also be quite lucrative as well.
I've never liked blackberries because of the seeds, so I think I'd like mulberries! Do you know if they grow well in northern climates like southern Canada?
You ever notice the micro worm larva that get into the berries? Many probably don't see them and are eating them unknowingly. Some of your mulberries have edible leaves.
My youngest came home from college for a quick visit last weekend and he identified 12 mulberry trees on our property in swampy Virginia. I am so excited! They're very small but grow super quickly... I thought they might be oak trees when I spotted them last year and already they're doubled in size! I can't wait until they're fruitful.
@@LazyDogFarm I planted 4 dwarf everbearing mulberry trees in Louisiana this year to distract the birds from my figs, maybe, or make a whole lot of wine. They`re already nearly 10 feet tall. It hasn`t rained and they`re growing way too fast. I`m gonna cut a couple of them back down by 2/3rds this winter. The website said they`d get 6 to 8 feet tall max.
Ive ate at least 5 different mulberry varieties and none of them were like yours. None had the stem through it. Shiny leaf black, red, pink, and the white grow wild in the upper midwest. Had the illinois everbearing and those are real good and probably donated some genes to many of the better wild ones. The worst ive had are the red ones with dull leaves that grow further south. Is there any acidity to those or are they all sweet and insipid?
Not necessarily. I've had 3 yr olds give big fruit. Remove competition, full sun, fertilize and mulch if you want big ones next year. Best trimmed to a bush for easy picking imo.
Not trying to be ugly or nothing. Just telling the truth. Where I live and grew up they’re considered trash trees. Especially when near a driveway or sidewalk. They kinda grow wild. They could be anywhere that somebody hasn’t cut them down yet. I ate plenty of them when I was kid but the adults hated them because they’re so messy.
They're pretty rare around here. I only know a couple folks in our entire county that have a mulberry tree. Mine has never produced any volunteers in the straw near the fence, where it would have plenty of opportunity to do so. Maybe some varieties are more invasive than others.
How old are your mulberry trees? I planted 4 dwarf everbearing this year. They`re already nearly 10 feet tall but no berries. I pruned them too. I`m gonna have to chop them way back this winter.
You gotta love the creativeness of children.
Great lesson for Titus. Never install tile with white grout. He’s super curious and always asking questions. 😊
LOVE mulberries! Growing up here in Jersey, our neighbor had a huge mulberry tree and my sister and i would go over and pick them for hours and come home with purple hands, mouths and feet. Best memories, and they are SO GOOD!
I have one of those trees here in South Arkansas.. I didn't know what kind of berry it was but I love them
Enjoyed your story about your boys. Thanks for sharing 😊
I have a North Florida native mulberry variety. Cuttings root very easily. You should prune, root and share as you do with the figs.
As a young boy my husband planted a mulberry tree in a narrow strip of dirt between the neighbor and his driveway. Needless to say , they had to cut it down after a few years because it stained the driveways so bad and was close enough to stain the neighbors clothes when they were drying on the line. Ooops.
When my granddaughter was about 5 She would go blueberry picking with me. She loved blueberries and we have 4 bushes that are very prolific. At the end of the picking, she said sorry Gramm, I ate all mine "I just couldn't help myself ".
They often grow the best with best berries in spots prone to waterlogging in the spring but dry at other times. Not in a swamp but close.
That's good to know, thanks! We have loads of those spots on my farm in Niagara Falls Ontario Canada 😂
Perfect!!! I have an ever bearing mulberry that is just loaded! Can’t wait to try your recipe! My ever bearing produces in the spring and fall.
I would buy some dormant cuttings or a rooted tree from you.
Mulberries are easy to propagate from cuttings. I’ve grown several from my Pakistan Mulberry to give away.
Can remember when I was a child me and my brother use to sit in the tree and eat our bellies full. Our tree was just outdide our kitchen door. Must be almost 60y ago😂❤
I would love to have a cutting or rooted plant if you ever decide to sale them.
We had a Mulberry tree like that at my parents growing up. Way better that blackberries. Tries to get a piece started at my house but it did not take. I used to pull down the limb and my poodle would jump up and grab the ripe berries. He knew only to pick the ripe ones, we ate a lot back then. The leave on theirs seemed a tad bigger than yours but it was in some shade.
My mulberries are cranking out and I just had some mulberry cobbler I made and topped with homemade vanilla ice cream. It was definitely the best cobbler I have ever had. They are my favorite berry. One tree has thousands every other day I pick at least a gallon and new berries keep forming. I rinse them in vinegar water , then fresh water then let dry and then freeze them .
We had cobbler and ice cream last night with some friends. It was amazing! No one there (besides us) had ever had mulberries. They all though they were eating blackberry cobbler until we told them.
@@LazyDogFarm I am not a fan of blackberries or blueberries- just not much flavor. UF has a new blueberry that is supposed to be very flavorful but I have not been able to find any. I hope some of the u pick fields will also have them for sale. If you hear after any place that has them and will ship please post. I can drive to North Tampa area to pick up otherwise I would rather pay shipping.
As a kid, some 50+ years ago, we had a Mulberry on the family farm (Australia). As kids, we used to climb that tree and eat as many as we could.
The first mulberry, was incredibly sour, but subsequent mulberries wonderful. Silk caterpillars love their leaves.
A neighbor of ours long ago let the neighbors' kids pick the mulberries from her tree, and our girls loved them. That was in the 70s! Good memories!
Kids....... they're a hoot...... sometimes. 🤣
I planted 4 dwarf everbearing mulberry twigs this year. They`re already about 10 feet tall in Louisiana but no fruit yet. One was a pencil sized rooted cutting with bark & 3 were slender green rooted tips of branches. I`m gonna have to do major pruning soon.
Those two remind me of me and my older brother. 😂 we did something similar with a chore sheet. Apparently you can’t do the same chore multiple time a day cause it pays more than others. Dad wasn’t a sucker. 😂
I've never tasted a muberry before and have never seen a muberry tree for sale. I love blackberries, so I'm sure I will love them.
You haven't lived. lol. Hope you get to taste a mulberry😂. They beat blackberries easy.
We planted 2 different varieties of mulberry trees last year and they are just flowering right now. I'm in a cooler climate than you though. I don't expect very many this first year but the trees have doubled in size. They grow much faster than other fruit trees I have with very little effort. I've read that some people plant mulberries to keep birds away from their other fruit trees. I'm hoping the birds like them better than my cherries and blueberries.
Never heard of buying a mulberry tree. They grow in fence rows and under pine trees like crazy here in Indiana.
I had an Illinois Everbearing mulberry that produced fruit longer than most varieties. I cut it down after the fruit began developing popcorn disease every year. That mulberry tree produced every year. I suppose the disease built up over time, unlike the trees that bear inconsistently. Birds love them.
I don't know what kind of Mulberry tree that is but it looks exactly like the kind we had behind our barn when I was a kid. It was there when my mom and dad bought the farm years ago. They never knew but it sure was good. Hey, I love the industrious kid that got all the bowls to make money. He is going to be a shrew business man one day. No grass growing under that kids feet. 😂😂😂
They grow like weeds here in Illinois. I have a few volunteers I let go. Garden snacks. Mine are the spring type too.
Good evening, Travis
We would be interested in several cuttings also , for here in Montgomery County, Texas
We had many in Alabama when I was growing up .
God bless you and Brooklyn and the boys .
Mrs j
Montgomery County, Texas 🙏
Very nice!! Illinois everbearing has always been my favorite!
Took me many years to learn they were edible. Wish somebody had told me when I bought the house. Quite a treat, my tree almost the same size and also sitting on a property line here in VA. Thanks.
The verity looks like Morus.
Your season starts way earlier than mine my mulberry tree is just budding out last week
Once you have them in your yard here in Illinois, you cant get rid of them.
Hey Lazy Dog! there`s a guy down here in Florida his name is Pete Kanaris at Green Dream TV a fellow youtuber, he`s big in to growing food forest yards and on one of his shows he showcase a mulberry that looked very much like the one you have and he called it a Everberry Mulberry. A friend of mine has a tree the size of the one you have and his also skips a fruit set from time to time
and now that i think about it, it generally happens when we have late frost/freeze here in central Florida. Look up Pete, maybe he could give you more insight on your mulberry.
By the way great show.
The Dwarf Everbearing produces twice each year and grows up to 25-30 feet tall if not kept trimmed.
Try contacting Jan Doolin, she has a CZcams channel all about Mulberries. I’m sure she can help you get a bit closer on the variety. Either way though, I too would gladly pay for cuttings in the fall.
I love in Indiana and we have tons of Mayberry trees. You have to wash the bird poop off your car real fast or it will stain the paint. 😢😂
Here in northern Missouri on the farm, we’ve had mulberry trees my entire life… ours are just like yours, only produces in early spring each year…. They look just like what you showed only ours is not that big. In fact only about half that size. We’ve never had a problem with frost, they produce later than the last frost/freeze here. Wished I could tell you the name, but I’ve never heard of anything but “it’s a mulberry” 😊
Great video!!
My father waged war against a mulberry tree for decades. It drove him absolutely crazy that a) he couldn't kill that tree and b) I willingly snacked on it from the day I could reach the fruits. (Also, the leaves are edible.)
Have you ever tried to propagate the mulberry tree? I'm sure a small tree would sale. I would be interested in at least two. I was successful in propagate my neighbors mulberry tree. He said that it was the "native" for florida. It bloomed this year, but they all feel off, it is only about 4 feet tall.
I've got a 2yr old Pakistani Mulberry that propagated itself into a cut-in-half wine barrel that is next to it. I didn't do a thing to it. Lol!!
I'm going to re-pot it, & give it away
It looks like a Shangri la mulberry, but to get a good second crop you have to prune after fruiting, and strip some leaves
It looks like the variety called World's Best developed by Univ. Of FL, which supports its susceptibility to frost. Or it could be whatever variety they used to breed the World's Best.
Funny that... A friend was clearing out his yard and I got some cuttings that I am propagating to grow mulberries (black). I have already been warned from my friend's situation that they are fast growing so I'm starting mine in a container but I wanted to add one to my ever growing garden. The berries were really delicious!!
I’m happy to see you have those. I saw one lady just grind them up and just use the juice. The white ones are shiny leaves, not shiny leaves? Those have a lot of protein and people dry them.
I’m going to try to hit them harder this year. It’s just such a free, reliable, yearly resource that I allow it to go to waste.
HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT MUCH ON FLAVOR. Everything else they are good on.
Nice story.
I was at a campground in Lancaster Pa. about 30+ years ago and we had a huge mulberry tree on our campsite. They were so delicious. I never realized they were this far north. 😊
I love mulberries; very informative. Will look for bushes. *Raising Boys, always an adventure.. lol.
My mom (RIP) would bake it in a cake.
Native Red Mulberry tree. I have several of them planted that I rooted (cloned) from a highly productive tree that produces good size fruit and is about 40yrs old and growing on family land.
Did it have a stem like that? Running through the berry?
@@miltkarr5109 yep, I bite off the stem and just chew up the internal part. It could be a hybrid. Native Red Mulberry’s will cross with others. Not many native mulberries around anymore. White mulberry’s are usually bushy and not big trees. Mulberry also makes good meat smoking wood, similar to apple wood.
This could be a (Morus nigra) Black mulberry. Someone would need to look at the leaves, bark, fruit size, etc. I do have Red Mulberries that produce large fruit but the more I think about it I’m thinking Travis’s tree is a Persian Black Mulberry, ( Morus Nigra)
Check out the variety that is indegenous to Texas. Those are big like your tree and they also start out red and turn black. There is also a hybrid that is invasive. Its a cross between the Texas variety and an asian variety but the berries start out light green instead of red.
Those air layer easily. Got them in my yard. Fight the birds for them! 🎉😂❤
One of the properties my father leased did in fact have a mulberry tree in our back yard. Didn’t know it till it started producing fruit. It might have fruited a couple of times but not enough for anything but eating what you find. Sadly, that farm no longer exists and everything was razed to the ground.😮
Maybe you could root some for sale. I would pay you for cuttings.
Yes, this is a persian mulberry.
That's crazy you already getting Berry's and our tree is just getting full of leaves the grandkids ran to it today looking for some Berry's
I think that is either a white or native red Mulberry........
Description
White mulberry is a medium-sized tree with a short trunk, broad, round crown, and many fine twigs.
Leaves are alternate, simple, 2-6 inches long, with 0-5 lobes, coarse teeth, pointed tip. Three main veins arise from the base. Undersurface smooth, paler than above. Bleeds milky sap. Leaf stalk smooth.
Bark is thin, brown, sometimes tinged with red or yellow, with shallow grooves and long, narrow ridges; it ages to resemble elm bark.
Twigs are reddish-brown, smooth to slightly hairy, turning gray and smooth with age. Bleed milky sap.
Flowers April-May, with male and female flowers on the same tree or on different trees. Male catkins ½-1½ inches long; female catkins ½-¾ inch long.
Fruits June-August, blackberry-like; white to pink to purple; globe-shaped to oval; ½-¾ inch long.
Similar species: Our native red mulberry (M. rubra) has leaves hairy underneath, more often lobeless, with hairy leaf stalk; its fruits are cylindrical and start out red (not white or pink); its catkins and leaves are larger. Another species, the black mulberry (M. nigra) grows in the Old World; most people think it has the best-tasting berries, which you might find in preserves or dried at international groceries.
Mine didn't produce very well this year
They look like the mulberry trees I've seen in Missouri. Not sure the variety but I know they grow wild there.
This variety we have isn't invasive and doesn't volunteer.
I'm one of the few people who doesn't care for mulberries. I'd much rather have huckleberry jelly or even better mayhaw jelly.
There was a similar large mulberry tree in thibodaux, la half mile from Nicholls State next to the 7-11 now Shop Rite. Large sweet fruit but not the Pakistan variety. Haven't seen any like it since
I been gorging myself on these for 2 weeks..i have another tree but they are WHITE ONES... weird..but they turn their color..
My chickens would clean them off the ground.
Hey I was wondering how the progress was going with the mulberry's being able to be purchased. I am definitely interested in getting myself a couple!
My first propagation attempt was just okay. Need to try again and refine the process so I can get a better "take rate."
looks like a World's Best to me. It wakes up too early to be a Morus nigra like Black Beauty, noir De spain or Black Persian. Morus Nigra has pretty tick leaves like a fig.
You need to get some sealer on that grout.
I wonder if you irrigated the tree if it would keep producing, sounds like your sandy soils with hot summers are pretty harsh for a berry producing tree to get the water it would need to do such a thing. Are the chickens going to get a taste ? lol
Maybe you DO have a Persian Mulberry, but in Georgia they don't act like they do back home??????? Just sayin.
Valdosta mulberry? Saw on Jan Doolins channel.
Would you be open to selling cuttings? These plants root and can be grafted on easily. If that tree is unique might be good to sell and guarantee it's preservation. Also be quite lucrative as well.
I'm going to try to root some soon.
I've never liked blackberries because of the seeds, so I think I'd like mulberries! Do you know if they grow well in northern climates like southern Canada?
In the swamps... east coast. Upstate New York where the duck hunting is good.
Shangri La Mulberry (yours)?
If it wasn’t for the snakes, I would like to live down there near you?
You ever notice the micro worm larva that get into the berries? Many probably don't see them and are eating them unknowingly. Some of your mulberries have edible leaves.
Yeah I notice them, but they don't bother us.
I eat peas with grubs in them and ground cherries with worms in them. I need all the extra protein I can get in this economy.
My youngest came home from college for a quick visit last weekend and he identified 12 mulberry trees on our property in swampy Virginia. I am so excited! They're very small but grow super quickly... I thought they might be oak trees when I spotted them last year and already they're doubled in size! I can't wait until they're fruitful.
Nothing like birds eating these then taking a shit on your car
Yeah that monthly subscription at the local drive through car wash has come in handy this month.
@@LazyDogFarm I planted 4 dwarf everbearing mulberry trees in Louisiana this year to distract the birds from my figs, maybe, or make a whole lot of wine. They`re already nearly 10 feet tall. It hasn`t rained and they`re growing way too fast. I`m gonna cut a couple of them back down by 2/3rds this winter. The website said they`d get 6 to 8 feet tall max.
Ive ate at least 5 different mulberry varieties and none of them were like yours. None had the stem through it. Shiny leaf black, red, pink, and the white grow wild in the upper midwest. Had the illinois everbearing and those are real good and probably donated some genes to many of the better wild ones. The worst ive had are the red ones with dull leaves that grow further south. Is there any acidity to those or are they all sweet and insipid?
Ours are really sweet when they're ripe.
Not any native mulberry ive ever seen. Its not white so thats out of the question. Never seen a native red with a stem all the way through either.
do mullberry fruit get bigger as the tree gets bigger? mine are tiny on a 2yo tree
Not necessarily. I've had 3 yr olds give big fruit. Remove competition, full sun, fertilize and mulch if you want big ones next year. Best trimmed to a bush for easy picking imo.
Seen real big trees with tiny fruit when on poor soil and even smaller berries in the dry years. Size of a pea.
Sounds like drought stress. Probably need water.
Not trying to be ugly or nothing. Just telling the truth. Where I live and grew up they’re considered trash trees. Especially when near a driveway or sidewalk. They kinda grow wild. They could be anywhere that somebody hasn’t cut them down yet. I ate plenty of them when I was kid but the adults hated them because they’re so messy.
They're pretty rare around here. I only know a couple folks in our entire county that have a mulberry tree. Mine has never produced any volunteers in the straw near the fence, where it would have plenty of opportunity to do so. Maybe some varieties are more invasive than others.
With the economy collapsing we`ll need all the wild food possible.
morus nigra?
😂😂Those boys are something else! Love it! We’ve got two dwarf mulberries that are putting on their first berries this year. I can’t wait!
How old are your mulberry trees? I planted 4 dwarf everbearing this year. They`re already nearly 10 feet tall but no berries. I pruned them too. I`m gonna have to chop them way back this winter.